How to draw a Hexagon

[Bob Levin]

How do I draw a Hexagon in cad? I tried transform replicate, but didn't have any luck figuring out how far and which direction to move and replicate the lines. Thanks Bob L.

[Don Randall]

Use CA10 CAD tools and follow:
http://www.hohenwald.tec.tn.us/HTML/CAD/GC.pdf
pg 22-23

[ALDrafting]

Thats one thing I wish to see in CA. Draw a polygon, define how many sides, and give in a dia or radius.

Done.....

[Allen Brown]

with cad lines, draw an equilateral triangle (all angles 60 degrees = 360 deg devided by six sides = 60 deg), next place an active cad point at one corner, select triangle, transform/replicate 5 copies, rotate 60 degrees, about current point. If you don't want the center lines, draw over from corner to corner, then move your new hexagon.

[Allen Brown]

freehand draw something close to a hexagon. Using angle dimension, select a side, click the angle dimension to the right, enter 120 degrees. move to the next side to the left, click the angle dimension to right, enter 120 degrees. go around until all angles are 120. next, draw three lines from corner to corner, set dimensions across from side to side, click on one side, enter 1/2 the dimension of your total. go to opposite side, enter the same amount. repeat for other sides.

[VHampton]

I took one of the call-outs...made it huge...and traced over it.

A new fangled approach.

[Allen Brown]

Once you have a hexagon of any size, click edit>preferences>cad- check "resize" instead of "move corners" and when you highlight and grab a corner, all six corners will move smaller or bigger together

[Tim O'Donnell]

one of the easiest ways is to draw a cad line the length of the long radius...select it... transform/replicate...make 2 copies and check rotate, enter 60(for other polygons just divide 360 by the number of sides and rotate the appropriate number of copies)...then turn on end snaps and draw the six lines from end to end of the radii

[Bob Levin]

Thanks all: Tim's method seems to be quicker. And to think I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out. I even called tech support even though technically it is not their job to teach us how to use this software. take care Bob L.

[Allen42acj]

Louis has a tutorial to do an octagon,think it would be the same idea..
Kind of what Tim said..

[Tim O'Donnell]

Once you have a hexagon of any size, click edit>preferences>cad- check "resize" instead of "move corners" and when you highlight and grab a corner, all six corners will move smaller or bigger together

fyi ....for fast access ...there are icons for the various edit modes you can add to your toolbars, so you do not need to drill down through the dbx to find them...and in my opinion they should be on everyones toolbar setup


if you use concentric jump you can set the jump size by dbl clicking the concentric icon and seret the value then grab a corner and it will jump out in increments of the value you entered

[05uurx]

This isnt the most efficient way, but its kind of easy. I think i like some of the other solutions better, but, this works too. My example is an octagon, but its just geometry and it works the same for other shapes.

Draw a square at the dia. you want, replicate at 45, trim extra lines, concentric jump the width, Cad-to-walls to appropriate wall type.

Works pretty good. I dont use it much, but i've drawn may fair share of gazebos and turrets.

[05uurx]

Sorry, i felt bad for doing the "easy" example...the hexagon takes one extra replication. oooooh. the guilt

[Wynsong]

You have got to be kidding!! One cannot just specify a polygon of any number of sides and size! Guess one can't say CA has the best CAD tools... I'm having to generate a window schedule from scratch because the architect I'm drafting for has a very specific format that CA won't allow me to do even though this is all very standard way of doing things in the industry. It means custom fields for CA which one can't seem to specify. And, I can't even draw a little hexagon! Wow! What a time waster.

[Glenn Woodward]

Catherine,

This one definitely is user error.
Try CAD...Regular Polygon...
How many sides do you want? What Length? What Radius?

This thread goes back to 2007 - are you actually looking for things to complain about?
I think the Regular Polygon was introduced back in X1 - I can't remember the date.

You may even get some hints on doing the schedule the way you want if you ask.